Unkempt and Desecrated Cemeteries that Cause Us Anguish




France, December 13, 2018

Dozens of gravestones and a monument to the holocaust have been desecrated with swastikas and other antisemitic signs at a Jewish cemetery near Strasbourg.
The graffiti – which also included “heil Hitler” – was discovered just hours before an Islamist terrorist shot dead three people at a Christmas market in the French city on Tuesday.
The two incidents have not been linked.
The vandalism at the Herrlisheim cemetery – in which 37 graves were targeted – is the fourth time in just two months that far-right symbols have appeared in the Alsace region, according to the Times of Israel.
It came shortly after police in France revealed they had registered a 69 per cent rise in the number of antisemitic crimes in the first nine months of 2018 compared with the same period last year.
A ceremony has since been held at the cemetery to denounce the vandalism and remember Holocaust victims.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/jewish-gravestones-swatstikas-strasbourg-france-desecration-anti-semitism-a8683436.html


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